Improvement in medical compounds for heart-disease



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MICHAEL D. BRITTEN, OF EATON, MICHIGAN.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 128,528, dated July 2, 1872.

Specification describing a new and Improved I Medical Compound, invented by MICHAEL D.

BRITTEN, of Eaton, in the county of; Eaton and State of Michigan.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in the curative art; and consists in a compound formed of the ingredients hereinafter named, and which is used as a medicine for the cure of heart-disease and nervous affections.

In carrying out my invention and discovery I proceed as follows: To four gallons of good alcohol I add three pounds Pimas origide, or one pound of the pitch thereof, one pound of the wood of the iron-Wood tree, (taken from the heart,) and one pound of beech bark, and steep moderately for twelve hours. When cold, strain the compound and bottle for use.

A medicine is thus formed which is extremely useful in what is known as heart disease, and which regulates the action of the heart and nerves of the human system generally.

I do not confine myself to the precise'proportions herein named of the above-mentioned ingredients, as variations may be made therein without departing from my invention.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A medical compound, composed of the in gredients and in about the proportions specified, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

MICHAEL D. BRITTEN.

Witnesses:

H. F. REMINGTON, A. J. IvEs. 

